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Does female employment raise or lower savings rates?
When female incomes rise, household expenditure patterns change. One oft-quoted survey paper suggests: men spend more of the income they control for their own consumption than do women. Alcohol, cigarettes, status consumer goods, even "female companionship" are noted in these studies. Another well known paper found that a UK policy change that transferred resources from […]
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